which event in 1861 led to the immediate secression of several states from the union?

Answer 1

the secession convention?

Answer 2

By 1855, the South was losing power to the fast-growing North and waged a series of Constitutional battles regarding states rights and the status of slavery in the territories. President James K. Polk imposed a low-tariff regime on the country (Walker Tariff of 1846), which angered Pennsylvania industrialists and blocked proposed federal funding of national roads and port improvements. Once the northern Republicans came to power in 1861 Southerners' felt it time to secede from the union: primarily in defense of states rights.

Seven cotton states decided on secession after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. They formed the Confederate States of America. In 1861, they were joined by four more states. The United States government refused to recognize the new country and kept in operation its second to last fort in the South, which the Confederacy captured in April 1861 at the Battle of Fort Sumter, in the port of Charleston, triggering the Civil War. In the four years of war which followed, the South found itself as the primary battleground, with all but two of the main battles taking place on Southern soil. The Confederacy retained a low tariff regime for European imports but imposed a new tax on all imports from the North. The Union blockade stopped most commerce from entering the South, so the Confederate taxes hardly mattered. The Southern transportation system depended primarily on river and coastal traffic by boat; both were shut down by the Union Navy. The small railroad system virtually collapsed, so that by 1864 internal travel was so difficult that the Confederate economy was crippled.

The Union (so-called because they fought for the United States of America) eventually defeated the Confederate States of America (the formal name of the southern American states during the Civil War). The South suffered much more than the North, primarily because the war was fought almost entirely in the South. Overall, the Union had 95,000 killed in action and 165,000 who died of disease, for a total of 260,000,[3] out of a total white Southern population at the time of around 5.5 million. [citation needed] Northern casualties exceeded Southern casualties, however.

Answer 3

in spite of the actuality that there are various 'professional motives' it boiled right down to one difficulty common.... the 'rights of a State to % its very own destiny interior rules set for in the form'. genuinely the superb suited of a State to tell the federal government "NO".....(even the President, the domicile of Representatives and the Senate). considering the fact that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger informed the federal government final 3 hundred and sixty 5 days 'No" and confronted State sanctions for doing so/.... it makes me ask your self whether that difficulty is relatively over or no longer. consequence? The Southern States have been very just about destroyed by technique of the tip of the Civil war and led to those states having forcefully freed slaves who then languished in no longer in user-friendly terms abject poverty yet have been additionally preyed upon by technique of an prolonged time of carpet baggers who got here down from the north to make their money off the misery of the south.

Answer 4

I think it was the presidential inauguration of Lincoln. The Southern states took this as the beginning of the end of their way of life and institutions, as well as being against their understanding of the rights of the States to succede from The Union.

Answer 5

Do any of you kids ever open text books anymore? Or at least hit Wikipedia or something? For godsake.....